TOPIC about_Continue SHORT DESCRIPTION Describes how the Continue statement immediately returns the program flow to the

top of a program loop. LONG DESCRIPTION In a script, the Continue statement immediately returns the program flow to the top of the innermost loop that is controlled by a For, Foreach, or While statement. The Continue keyword supports labels. A label is a name you assign to a statement in a script. For information about labels, see about_Break. In the following example, program flow returns to the top of the While loop if the $ctr variable is equal to 5. As a result, all the numbers between 1 and 10 are displayed except for 5: while ($ctr -lt 10) { $ctr +=1 if ($ctr -eq 5) {continue} Write-Host $ctr } Note that in a For loop, execution continues at the first line in the loop. If the arguments of the For statement test a value that is modified by the For statement, an infinite loop may result. SEE ALSO about_Comparison_Operators